The whimsical gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Author: Miguel de Cervantes
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Publish Date: 2001-06-01
Features: In June 2000, the exhibition of Salvador Dalí, a giant of the 20th-century world art scene and a master of Spanish painting, caused a sensation in Beijing. Among the works displayed were thirty-eight exquisite illustrations related to the world literary treasure Don Quixote (ten watercolors and twenty-eight sketches), which were presented to the Chinese people for the first time. To allow more Chinese readers to appreciate the masterpieces while reading and to experience Spanish culture from multiple perspectives, the editors, with the assistance of the Cultural Section of the Spanish Embassy in China, obtained authorization from the Salvador Dalí Foundation in Spain. They have now included all thirty-eight illustrations in Professor Sun Jiamei's newly translated edition of Don Quixote, a move that will hold a unique significance in the history of cultural exchange between China and Spain. This book boasts two "wonders" and two "beauties": the masterpiece of the great Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes is one wonder; the exquisite illustrations by the 20th-century world art master Salvador Dalí are the second wonder. Professor Sun Jiamei's translation is one beauty; the wonderful design and printing are the second beauty. The combination of these two wonders and two beauties makes this book.